Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Maybe you could start a new tradition, in a cricket equivalent of the seventh innings stretch.
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...and thank you, David. Is it too rude to ask what might you be doing in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne?
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Am I the only person who's more shocked that anyone in the Stooges actually lived to 60? :)
You are not the only one. Does that now make it The Three Stooges?
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My sister and I both used to get horribly car-sick, so my parents used to stick a couple of old icecream containers in the back so we could throw up with a minimum of mess.
Still do. Nothing quite delightful as a download of recently picked raspberries, half-way through the Awakino Gorge.
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David: I kept My First Stabbing for a January treat but have put it aside. not quite finished, as it is a treat to savour. It is tremendous--a book for reading out loud to adults.
I reckon you have read my secret list list of Things I Abhore viz leaky babies, weddings, memories of brutal NZ schools.We do need a second book, before next summer comes around!
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David: I realise thatr no one has been near this discussion since the Christmas crackers were on the warmer but I have nearly finished My First Stabbing. I kept it for a January treat. It is tremendous. It is as if you have read my list of serious horrors/the things I abhore viz weddings, leaky babies, dim memories of school brutality (you didn't have school cadets too?).
Passed one story on to my wife--it has been some time since I have heard her LOL at a book. I will savour the remaining few stories -
I have always been puzzled by the American resistance to the notion of a drawn game. Some years ago I went to an Orioles v Yankees bb fixture in Baltimore and it went on until midnight, to avoid a drawn outcome. Does it says something about the American mind-set, that there must always be a solitary winner?
But I did very much like baseball during my time in the US--partly because the rituals echoed those of cricket (even though I remember the looks of disbelief when we once staged a cricket match at my university (in Ohio), with a hodge-podge of Indian, Pakistani exchange students + one Kiwi foreign student). -
Could never get interested in NFL as it seemed more like theatre (bad theatre) than sport. But I agree with you about the incongruity of another rugby season looming. whilst we still have dispatches from Daniel Carter's exploits overseas, to sustain us. In the week before Christmas, the Waikato Times featured large photos of Chiefs players disporting (sic?) themselves in the surf at the Mount. Maybe we should threaten drowning unless they do better in 2009!
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...and you just upgraded yourself on the creepy-meter there.
Well, I can only justify myself in that it was quite some time ago, before matrimony and children and the internet.
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We have also joined the club, with a Bravia Sony 42" + Freeview installed--the reward from prolonged exam marking. Now we can see Media 7 as it is meant to be seen.